Re: how do you remove a virus that will not let your anti-virus run
From: Brian (brian2004_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/18/04
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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:51:06 -0800
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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> I hope you realize that is a *very* good question ! One that is hard to
fully answer but
> let me give you a few methodologies...
>
> - As noted by others you can try an online scan; McAfee, Trend,
Symantec and others have
> this capability.
>
> - If this is a NT based OS that uses NTFS, a surrogate platform can be
used. You remove
> the infected platforms hard disk and you insert in another NT based OS
platform and setup
> the drive as a "D:" drive. You would then use the surrogate's AV software
to scan and
> clean/delete infectors found.
>
> - If this is a FAT32 based drive then you can boot off a Win98 (or
other FAT32 OS boot
> disk) and then use a Command Line Scanner such as McAfee's or FProt to
scan and clean/delete
> infectors found. I use a parallel port ZIP drive and a boot floppy that
loads Win98. I
> then boot off the floppy disk but run McAfee's Command Line Scanner from
the ZIP drive.
>
> { Since this is a MS News Group I won't bring up Linux/Unix and their
partition schemes. }
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:021001c3dd5e$6aef2e30$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> | My machine will not run my anti-virus software. It'll
> | load but won't run, or it won't even load. If anyone can
> | help with this problem, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> |
> | Thank you.
In addition, better check for an AV Killer.
Regards,
Brian.
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